NAME
knewsd - a tiny nntp demon
SYNOPSIS
knewsd [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
Knewsd is intended to be used with knews(1) to read news (in)directly
from the spool directory or even from a mail folder hierarchy. It
reads NNTP commands from standard input and writes replies to standard
output. The following commands are implemented:
ARTICLE [number]
BODY [number]
HEAD [number]
Return the head and/or body of the current or the specified
article. Message-id lookups are not supported.
GROUP newsgroup
Enters the given newsgroup.
HELP
Gives a list of the implemented commands.
LIST [active | newsgroups]
Lists the active file or the newsgroups file.
NEXT
Changes the current article pointer to the next article
POST
Post an article via the specified posting agent. If none has
been specified, the reply will be ’440 Posting not implemented.’
QUIT
Makes knewsd exit.
STAT number
Sets the current article pointer.
XOVER range
Returns the overview data for the specified range of articles.
Knewsd implements the ’xover’ command either by using the overview
files if present, or creating overview records on the fly, or a
combination of both if the overview file is incomplete. In the latter
case, if the -update flag is given, knewsd will update the overview
files.
OPTIONS
There is no need to spell out the entire option name, it is sufficient
to give a unique prefix, such as -a for -active.
-spool directory
This is the spool directory. It must be specified, either at
compile time or at run time.
-active file
This is the active file containing the newsgroups and the high
and low article counts. If this is not specifed, knews must be
told not to try to read the active file.
-newsgroups file
This is the newsgroups file containing the group descriptions.
It’s entirely optional.
-overview dir
This can be used if the overview files reside in a different
directory hierarchy than the spool directory.
-update
If this is set, knewsd will (try to) update any incomplete
overview files it encounters. Not a good idea if you’re reading
a system wide spool directory.
-postingagent agent
If this is set, the ’agent’ will be used to post articles. A
possible agent is ’exec inews -h’. This command is interpreted
by the shell, and it is important that it is exec’ed, so that
knewsd may kill it on a broken pipe to prevent posting of
duplicate or truncated articles. Knewsd will warn about this on
startup.
AUTHOR
This software is Copyright 1995, 1996 by Karl-Johan Johnsson.
SEE ALSO
knews(1), inews(1)
1996